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Traffic Jam is a french film of genre Drama directed by Juan Luis Buñuel released in USA on 4 march 1988 with Annie Girardot
Traffic Jam (1979)
L'Ingorgo : Una storia impossibile (titre alternatif : Black Out in Autostrada)
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Add to a movie listTraffic Jam (Italian: L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile) is a 1979 Italian satirical comedy-drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.
Synopsis
In a main thoroughfare on the outskirts of Rome, thousands of motorists are stuck in terrible traffic jam for twenty-four hours. In a stretch of road there is a variety of characters whose behaviour becomes strange. There is a selfish and hypocritical entrepreneur in a luxury car; a young hippie girl harassed and then raped by some dandies and a family from Naples on the way to Rome to abort their daughter. There is also an old couple that argues constantly; a patient that dies in the ambulance; an old actor staying in a small country house near the road; a female globetrotter who is hitch-hiking to the stopped cars and some young members of Far Left Wing among others. The day the traffic jam clears, the entrepreneur hires the girl from Naples for a record company in exchange for a sexual service. The girl is raped and then comforted by a man who wants to avenge her but then gives up. The rapists leave quietly once more.Actors
Annie Girardot
(Irène)
Ugo Tognazzi
(Professor)
Alberto Sordi
(Dr. De Benedetti)
Marcello Mastroianni
(Marco Montefoschi)
Stefania Sandrelli
(Teresa)
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